VP9 and HEVC
•VP9 from Google Open Web Platform
Project WEBM
•Developed by Chrome Media team
•Started in 2011
•Open source project developed entirely
in public domain
•Unorganised progress, compression
gains measured against test set every
day
•Bitstream finalised June 2013
•Launched at Google IO 2013
•YT streams 4K to an LG 4K TV Set in
CES 2014
•No Royalty payment needed
•Bitstream documented by the code!
•HEVC is latest evolution of H.26x
(H.265)
•MPEG Consortium
•Very organised, documents
available
•Bitstream documented and
available online at ITU
•Highly academic driven. See
Special Issue of IEEE CSVT 2012
on HEVC. Also won best paper
prize (Wiegand).
•Goal 50% lower bitrate at same
quality as H.264
•Draft since 2012, finalised in 2013.
•Akami/Qualcomm/Elemental Demo
HEVC streaming at CES 2014.
VP9 Video Vorbis Audio
Matroska (.mkv)
The two sides met at Picture Coding Symposium 2013